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David Rice, a disabled Army paratrooper who has been on probation since joining the U.S. Department of Energy in September, also learned Thursday night that he had lost his job.

Rice, who has been working as a foreign affairs specialist on health matters relating to radiation exposure, said he’d been led to believe that his job would likely be safe. But on Thursday night, when he logged into his computer for a meeting with Japanese representatives, he saw an email saying he’d been fired.

“It’s just been chaos,” said Rice, 50, who had just bought a house in Melbourne, Florida, after he got the job.

Rice said he agrees with the Trump administration’s goal of making the government more efficient, but objects to the random, scattershot approach being taken.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (6 children)

They all fail at game theory. When being negative, everyone loses. Tit for Tat + 10% forgiveness is the most successful and highest growth potential. T4T means you are always nice, always positive, and when someone is negative, you respond in kind but randomly forgive 10% of the time to exit the stupidity spiral. Most world leaders know and operate under T4T now that it was established as the only path to maximal growth for everyone. Failing to apply this when everyone else is applying it will ALWAYS result in bringing everyone down but the most damage will ALWAYS occur to the perpetrating entity when all others are playing T4Tpt.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is interesting, how did they get those calculations?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

The person you're replying to is describing (without giving proper context except for "game theory") an algorithm that's fairly successful at the "iterated prisoners dilemma": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I don't know where this particular graph came from, but Richard Dawkins has a whole chapter about strategies for the prisoner's dilemma in his book "The Selfish Gene".

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Veritasium did a nice video covering the research and explaining the sources. It was an academic competition of sorts

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

There are a variety of ways. One way is to run a computer program that executes each strategy and then just have them all go against each other some number of times like a tournament, or sometimes just "random matchings". Super fast to do so it's easy to try different scenarios and make a lot of different strategies.

They've also done tournaments with actual people, and then compared the different people's behavior to the different "pure" strategies that they made. This helps them validate that the behaviors carry over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

It's worth noting that nation states don't always behave the same as individuals, but often closer to the game theory ideal. Additionally, there are circumstances where tit for tat isn't actually the dominant strategy, specifically when you know that the game is going to end.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone wanna tell this person what T4T actually means? It'll be funny.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

I'm lazy. Sorry T's. May you always be positive and get your extra 10%

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So what I'm hearing is, we should forgive 10% of the magats?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I “forgive” them by not punching them in the face on sight.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Forgiveness is for you. Any benefit they get is a by-product.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I avoid getting sued, arrested, or fired by not punching them in the face.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The graph only shows that eventually 15 % of the population do T4T, not that it is the best or whatever?

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago

Our leopards are starting to look a bit, uh, not super healthy.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (7 children)

This is the first I've seen of a conservative Lemmy community. God willing it is the last I see of one as well. At this point I unironically believe Lemmy needs a healthy amount of tankies so that right-wingers know they're not welcome here~ ❤️

That's mean to say but I'm trying to switch over from Reddit and I'm honestly just so done with MAGA stinking up every damn space it's insane, I don't want them to even breathe in my direction. With RFK Jr as the recent pick for the Department of Health and Human Services, I just might need to enforce that boundary literally.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

From what I've seen, any "conservative" community on Lemmy is 2 or 3 troll accounts that make up 90% of posts. Why would far right people use Lemmy when Reddit, Twitter, and Facebook are so welcoming to them?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just to get a reaction, which so far seems to be getting down voted into oblivion.

But they probably get off on the down votes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Owning the libs. Getting them so triggered.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On the bright side, if there is another pandemic, we'll get a nice case study in Darwinism

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

I knew a few people that died (working in a hospital) from COVID but the last one that did was a full on conservitive that was the first to take the mask off and complain about it.... until one day when I went to his desk and his coworkers told me he was out sick.... and then a week later he was dead from complications from COVID.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

Last paragraph says it all He believes the rhetoric and then complains when they do what they told him they were going to do.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Claiming to on some level support Trump as a government worker is just common sense at this point, regardless of what you actually believe.

There's a sliver of a chance this article goes viral. If MAGA sees him as "one of them", he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.

It's kinda like some Chinese protests have signs glorifying the CCP and Xi.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If MAGA sees him as "one of them", he might get his job back. If not, he might get ruined in ways that go beyond job loss.

As if. MAGA doesn't give a shot about injured veterans. For them, veterans are just an advertisement for the armed forces, and injured veterans taint the image. Also he's a textbook DEI hire.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

The conservative consequences.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How braindead do you have to be to equate efficiency with destruction?!

Unless of course, destruction is the point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lots of folks want it all to burn down, not see it healed. Accelerationism is not unique to maga, they just differ in what they hope comes next

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Some want a levelling of the playing field, others want an opportunity to seize absolute power.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

"I thought it meant they would fire one of THEM, not me!"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

"The last time the economy lost jobs was in December 2020, when the United States was still recovering from ~~the coronavirus pandemic~~" Trump's first term. (fixed that)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I've seen about 3 pop up in All so far. And I just block them as they appear.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Oh noooooooo.

Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Oh, not me though!

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